The great and small game of India, Burma, & Tibet . Inneniiost Asia that, according to his ownexperience, tliere is no rifle equal to the -256 Mannlicher, whosesupremacy over other small weapons has been so generally admitted. Littlcdales sheep [Ovis saircnsis)^ which is a darker and smalleranimal, with a white rump-patch in winter but none in summer, andhorns somewliat intermediate between those of po/i and ammon^ is foundmuch north (the Saiar Mountains) of the area treated of in this volume. THE TIBETAN ARGALI {Ovis a 111 moil hoJgsoiii) Native —Nyan (male), Nyanmo (female), Ladaki ;N
The great and small game of India, Burma, & Tibet . Inneniiost Asia that, according to his ownexperience, tliere is no rifle equal to the -256 Mannlicher, whosesupremacy over other small weapons has been so generally admitted. Littlcdales sheep [Ovis saircnsis)^ which is a darker and smalleranimal, with a white rump-patch in winter but none in summer, andhorns somewliat intermediate between those of po/i and ammon^ is foundmuch north (the Saiar Mountains) of the area treated of in this volume. THE TIBETAN ARGALI {Ovis a 111 moil hoJgsoiii) Native —Nyan (male), Nyanmo (female), Ladaki ;Nyci//g, NyafiiJ, and Hyan, Tibetan (Plate III. Figs. 2, 2a) Altliough frequently regarded as representing a species by itself,the nyan of Ladak comes so close to the typical Ovis ammon of theAltai, that it may well be classed merely as a local race of the males of this fine species (that is to say, of the argali in itswidest sense) appear to be the largest oi all wild sheep, and are Great &c Sma^l Game of India &cc., Plate
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